When comparing OpenShot vs Pitivi, the Slant community recommends OpenShot for most people. In the question“What is the best free video editing software?” OpenShot is ranked 8th while Pitivi is ranked 11th.
Specs
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Pros
Pro In active development
Pro Easy to learn
By using a clean interface that is uncluttered and simple to understand the program allows for intuitiveness that is not always seen in other video editors.
Pro GTK based
Being GTK based, it does not require extra dependencies on gnome and other desktop environments using the GTK Toolkit.
Pro Free and open source
Pitivi uses CreativeCommons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license with source code available on Gnome's source code page.
Pro Uses Gstreamer instead of ffmpeg
Cons
Con Unstable
Crashes enough to make you feel like searching for another editor.
Con Unintuitive
Con Encoding and decoding is not hardware-accelerated
The feature is planned, but not yet implemented.
Con No way to modify the speed of a clip
The feature is planned, but not yet implemented.
Con Lacks proxy editing
The feature is planned, but not yet implemented.